Catalog
10 Heller Imst
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Imst |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN FÜNF HELLER ZWEIMAL FÜNF IST 10 HELLER FÜNF HELLER STADTGEMEINDE IMST 2. Auflage DEUTSCHE BUCHDRUCKEREI G.M.B.H., INNSBRUCK |
| Reverse description | Printed in a lighter tan-brown tone on plain paper, the reverse mirrors the obverse layout with two conjoined 5-Heller panels divided by a central vertical strip. The left panel presents the Tyrolean eagle shield with the numeral '5' and 'H' on either side beneath the heading 'KASSENSCHEIN FÜNF HELLER', accompanied by a redemption clause text in the lower portion; the right panel repeats the civic arms of Imst with '5 H' and the issuer inscription 'STADTGEMEINDE IMST'. The central band again carries the repeated legend 'ZWEIMAL FÜNF IST 10 HELLER' in vertical orientation. |
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Imst is a market town in the Inn Valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to locally issued Heller notes during the acute small-change famine of 1919–1920, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left coins effectively absent from everyday commerce. These emergency issues — Notgeld in the broader sense, though Austrian municipal pieces are catalogued separately — were authorized by the town itself rather than any banking authority, which is why the issuer line reads Stadtgemeinde rather than any financial institution.
Deutsche Buchdruckerei in Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld, making Imst's series technically competent but not among the more elaborately produced pieces of the type.